The British officer types he scrutinizes are creatures of their age, Boris conservative and authoritarian. The deeper you read into the book, the more you realize that the specific circumstances of a raglan or Hague Montgomery are less important than their lifelong enlistment in the military hierarchy which constrains an often warped behavior. At the heart of this book is a thesis that all can accept all human decision makers are victims of a chronic hazard that emotion and motivation unconsciously distort and bias all thought and perception.